That all sounded good until it said Instragram.

There used to be an option to let you avoid seeing shorts. It seems to have disappeared.

My Youtube shorts are kind of insane. My normal Youtube recommendation feed is pretty okay, it’s mostly tech stuff with a fair bit of Reddit and aviation thrown in. Shorts are mostly extreme right-wing US politics. I have no idea why this happens.

Me either. Plastic poopoo things for the most part.

I've learned that, if you ended up playing something accidentally (even for just a little), the algorithm immediately switches you to that topic. Turn off all recommendations in your settings. It should get better but not entirely.

I don’t want to turn off recommendations. My Youtube recommendations are fine and I do want them. It’s just shorts that somehow went off the rails.